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Remove each vehicle used by drunken driver

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The Dec. 9
Dispatch editorial “Impaired system” said that how to protect the public from repeat
drunken drivers is a tricky question.

It is disgusting to keep reading that drunken drivers have been put on probation (ha!), their
driver’s licenses have been suspended (who needs it?), etc. We can’t build more and more jails.

We should deprive drunken drivers of a vehicle. For a first offense, give them a meaningful
fine. After that, when convicted of operating a vehicle under the influence, take possession of the
vehicle, sell it and give the proceeds to law enforcement or a fund for victims of OVI crashes.

Sure, the offender can borrow a vehicle, but if that person is convicted again of OVI, sell
that vehicle, too. That should reduce the number of times the owner would offer his vehicle to such
a driver.